by Roy Hingston, senior vice president and chief balance sheet strategist, Shay Financial Services

All of us need to create an annual operating budget. In order to produce that report, we need to forecast net interest income, interest income, and interest expense. In order to do that, we must have an interest rate forecast to use for the model. How do we produce such an interest rate forecast? More >

Obtaining Greater Balance Sheet Liquidity and Flexibility via the Seattle Bank’s Expanded Collateral Program “The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of... the indefinite expansion of possibility.”  Susan Sontag If you would like to get the most borrowing capacity out of your collateral, you may wish to consider the Seattle Bank’s expanded collateral program. More >

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